September 10, 2010

• 6 Ideas that drive me insane

  There are times when people say or write things that simply boggle my mind…here are 6 of them. Originally there were more but this post got a little long at the Crusades…I LOVE HISTORY.

  1. Religion is the cause of all the world’s evils. This one makes me roll my eyes because it requires a gross ignorance of human history and of human nature. The vast majority of wars were fought over politics, power, and pissing off the wrong people. PEOPLE are the cause of the world’s evils. Or to put it another way, a few assholes like to stir the pot and ruin life for the rest of us. They’ll use any means necessary to attain their goals and if playing religious will get them there then that’s what they’ll do.

  2. Gun Control reduces violence. Gun Control doesn’t lower violence or even gun violence. The previously mentioned assholes will get weapons illegally. They don’t care about laws and their character is such that they will be violent with blades if not bullets or fists if nothing else is available. 

  3. Conservatives are racist. PEOPLE are racist. You will find people in the Left and Right wing who are racist and from my experience, it is the LEFT which is the most racist. They treat minorities like retarded children who have to be looked after and they hand them “candy” for votes. They also treat whites as the bogeymen of history and unless a particular white person hates his/her heritage and regrets every sin any white person ever committed then they’re a racist.

  4. Conservatives want to establish a theocracy. This nation was established by conservatives. The rights they bequeathed to us were born from a distaste for the STATE governing the CHURCH. Being part of the wrong church in England sent up red flags to the authorities. You were a rebel or worse – a Papist. The Church is largely the fall-guy for the State. Religion was used as a cudgel by assholes who wanted to maintain their power. There is just as much danger that we will establish a secular theocracy that hates the religious for not bowing to the State.

  Gee, where have we seen that before? Besides the near constant bashing of conservatives and Christians here in America you also see that in a) the Nazis and b) the Communists (China and the USSR being especially bad). I’m not saying we’re as bad as they but merely saying we have the seedlings of the same species of tree.

  5. Christians are dangerous. PEOPLE are dangerous. You’ll find that when assholes burn the Bible there aren’t riots, bombings, and multinational protests. We certainly aren’t happy that someone is burning a book we consider holy but we recognize that a) it can easily be replaced, b) killing people for burning the Bible isn’t what Jesus would do, and c) the Word of God is eternal and will not pass from the face of the Earth until every word has been fulfilled.

  6. The Crusades are proof that Christians are just as blood thirsty as Muslims. Wrong, wrong, wrong. While the Turks were certainly militant and certainly Muslim about it, they were invaders at heart so their take on Islam would naturally slant towards violence. Similarly, when Rome was conquered by barbarians they noticed that all the smart people they hadn’t killed were Christian. Because those Christians knew how to make the toilets flush (that’s a joke, not a historical fact), the barbarians put them in positions of power. Their Christianity wasn’t the draw, their education was.

  Fast forward to the Crusades and you’ve got barbarians who’ve mixed their “hit it with an axe” mentality with Christianity’s “Jesus loves you” which created “Jesus loves you when you hit people who don’t love Jesus with your axe” – and that was only PART of the populace. Naturally, the part that was raised from the age of six to kill things.

  The Turks invade CHRISTIAN LANDS that had been CHRISTIAN FOR CENTURIES and the Western Church collectively shrugged – they were kind of busy hitting each other with axes. The Byzantine Emperor, not enjoying the ass-kicking he was receiving from the Turks, sends a letter to the Pope requesting a few hundred Norman Knights. Norman Knights were the Medieval equivalent of a giant tank made out of Navy SEALS.

  The Pope, tired of seeing Christian Knights killing Christian Knights, figures that Christian Knights killing Muslim Turks has to be at least a little less evil and/or retarded so he declares a Crusade and promises that anyone who takes up the Cross will receive salvation. Not exactly Biblical but the Feudal lords seemed stoked about it so he figured “why not?”

  There were three kinds of people who went on the Crusades – people who wanted to make money, people who just wanted to kill something, and people who genuinely believed their salvation was being earned. For Medieval knights there was a serious question of whether they could be saved as their job consisted of bashing other people’s skulls in. The idea that they could be saved through the only skill they had was vastly appealing.

  Meanwhile, the Turks just wanted to hold onto all the nice land they’d conquered. Islam hadn’t taken a hold in the region beyond its conquering force – the populace was till Jewish, Christian, and Other. Anyone Christians etc not accidently mistaken for Muslims and slaughtered by the Crusaders were cracked down on by the Muslims who were worried about Christian insurrections.

  So the peasants pretty much got screwed coming and going – which repeats over and over again in human history regardless of what the impetus for war originally was.

  So please STFU about Christians attempting to force religion on others and militant Muslims just doing what Christians did a thousand years ago. a) stupidity doesn’t justify further stupidity and b) Islam has been spread by the sword since it earliest days – which is mostly to say there’s always been some guy with a sword who thinks Islam is the bomb…teehee.

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